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synonyms for fits and starts
- fitful
- infrequent
- rare
- irregular
- intermittent
- random
- scattered
- isolated
- occasional
- desultory
- spotty
- few
- hit-or-miss
- scarce
- seldom
- spasmodic
- uncommon
- bits and pieces
- on-again-off-again
- semioccasional
- unfrequent
- random
- indiscriminate
- haphazard
- desultory
- pointless
- erratic
- frivolous
- accidental
- any which way
- blind
- capricious
- careless
- casual
- chance
- fanciful
- fickle
- flighty
- fortuitous
- heedless
- hit-or-miss
- indecisive
- irresolute
- purposeless
- shiftless
- stray
- thoughtless
- unavailing
- unplanned
- unpredictable
- vagrant
- wandering
- wanton
- wayward
- bits-and-pieces
- directionless
- drifting
- goalless
- objectless
- undirected
- unguided
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antonyms for fits and starts
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- pointed
- motivated
- goal-oriented
- particular
- definite
- resolute
- purposeful
- directed
- determined
- sensible
- systematic
- specific
- methodical
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How to use fits and starts in a sentence
With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINShe also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTNo law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTMr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSThey were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGHe walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONHe paused, then mixed and drank another whiskey-and-soda, lit a cigarette, and resumed.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONSo when she clears up a little along towards noon, these three takes a packadero layout an' starts, presumable for Medicine Lodge.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRWhen the orange-and-red banner was actually replaced by the Stars and Stripes, many in the crowd shed tears.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANThe exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKWORDS RELATED TO FITS AND STARTS
- accidental
- any which way
- bits-and-pieces
- blind
- capricious
- careless
- casual
- chance
- desultory
- directionless
- drifting
- erratic
- fanciful
- fickle
- fits and starts
- flighty
- fortuitous
- frivolous
- goalless
- haphazard
- heedless
- hit-or-miss
- indecisive
- indiscriminate
- irresolute
- objectless
- pointless
- purposeless
- random
- shiftless
- stray
- thoughtless
- unavailing
- undirected
- unguided
- unplanned
- unpredictable
- vagrant
- wandering
- wanton
- wayward
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.